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ADS Podcast: Audience retention with Dan Meagher (remix)

Posted On February 1, 2019 By Shoshana

Dan Meagher, Audience Development & Digital Strategist of the Diablo Ballet, stopped… 

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Audience retention idea?

Posted On January 18, 2019 By Shoshana

My interview with Diablo Ballet‘s Dan Meagher is scheduled. A new ADS podcast is coming soon! On the agenda: audience retention based off of his recent blog post, They came. They saw. They left.  Do you have an audience retention idea for the podcast? Record a quick VM here: https://speakpipe.com/ADS. Please state your name and organization to… 

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ADS Podcast: Top 10 Reasons why arts organizations struggle

Posted On May 30, 2018 By Shoshana

After being in arts administration since 1997, I have come to find… 

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The spiritual side of audience development

Posted On March 15, 2018 By Shoshana

Did you know that audience development has a spiritual side? Today I… 

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ADS Podcast: Barriers to attendance with Ron Evans

Posted On June 29, 2017 By Shoshana

It’s here! Today we are welcoming Ron Evans from Group of Minds… 

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ADS Podcast: Impeccable Customer Service Part 2

Posted On April 21, 2017 By Shoshana

Join Shoshana as she dives into acquisition costs for audience members and… 

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Ask Shoshana Part 2 and relevance

Posted On April 7, 2017 By Shoshana

Hi all, Happy Friday to you! I wanted to open up the Ask Shoshana bin again. I am working on weekly podcast ideas, and I want to invite you to send me a message to be used as a segment. You can ask any question that is audience development related. Sending me the message means… 

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ADS Podcast: Impeccable Customer Service Month!

Posted On April 4, 2017 By Shoshana

For the month of April, I will be discussing my ideas regarding using… 

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ADS Podcast: Ambassador Programs

Posted On March 20, 2017 By Shoshana

Let’s talk about Ambassador Programs on the ADS Podcast this week! There… 

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Arts Advocacy Examples

Posted On March 9, 2017 By Shoshana

I am backtracking to wrap up the arts advocacy theme for last… 

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“We had an enormously productive session with Shoshana Fanizza of Audience Development Specialists, discussing both long and short term strategies for marketing, outreach and audience development. In addition to recommending several new strategies, which we plan to incorporate into our marketing and outreach efforts, she showed us ways to refine and enhance what’s already working so that it will reach even further. Shoshana is knowledgeable, prepared and a total professional. We won’t hesitate to call on her again.” —David Srebnik and Cynthia May Listener Directed Productions, Inc – producer of Virtuoso Voices

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